Because I Said So: When the Hero Comes Home

At least that’s the default answer when my kids ask me “why?” So, yeah, that really doesn’t have anything to do with this post. This is a plug for a book. Yep. When the Hero Comes Home. But it’s not just because it’s co-edited by my...

Building a Blog Tour – Guest Post by Jeff Bennington

There are a lot of ways to build an author platform nowadays. You can Tweet, facebook, blog and advertise, but nothing seems to make your presence known in literary circles faster than a blog tour. What’s a blog tour?  A blog tour is an opportunity for an author to...

Why All Writers are Secretly (or not so much) Schizophrenics

They’re trying to hide it, with varying levels of success, but, as you suspected, writers are all, in fact, closet schizophrenics. Let’s look at the definition of schizophrenia, from that renowned, infallible bastion of knowledge, Wikipedia: A person diagnosed with...

Rant Coming On: Writers & Readers

I ran across a comment on an agent’s blog the other day, in response to a post about how writers feel when they see bad books getting published. It went something like this: I used to get frustrated and resentful when I didn’t get a bite for my own much...

I Love This and You’re Very Smart BUT…

This is horrid and what you’ve done here is stupid. Or something like that. Otherwise known as getting revisions back from your editor. I love getting stuff from my editor. Really, I do. I can weather the crushing depression and the ego-killing “ummmm,...